Bob CollinsThe online star of the postgame show for American’s Election Day has turned out to be a guy who’s going to be out of work in two months.
Rest assured, Joe Biden will be just fine.
But he’s spent the last eight years playing second banana to a popular — now, anyway — president. In a hot meme rush in the last week, he leads a quixotic effort to make life miserable for Donald Trump and the Republicans while Obama plays the adult in the room.
The Guardian today considers how this happened.
The post-election Joe Biden in these latest memes has been specially updated for the occasion. He’s bitter, petty and unable to play along with the dignified charade of transition, a class-clown hero. Above all, he appears convinced that, in the present circumstances, only pointless, completely idiotic gestures will suffice. For a lot of Americans, that captures the mood perfectly.
Joe: Just met with Secret Service
Barack: Oh yea?
Joe: I got them to agree to call Trump "David S. Pumpkins" pic.twitter.com/OYbZpNiO54— Jill Biden (@JillBidenVeep) November 14, 2016
Obama: Didn't think he'd be late
Biden: I gave him the wrong address
Obama: Joe he's the president-elect
Biden: idgaf what they call him pic.twitter.com/5jqMV82Upy
— High School Problems (@ComedyOrTruth) November 14, 2016
Biden: I'm not apologizing for what I did to him!
Obama: Joe, you changed the wifi password to "CheetoMonster666" pic.twitter.com/RvxErafMcv
— Sam Stryker (@sbstryker) November 13, 2016
Barack: Sign here, and here
Joe: And then the adoption is final & you and Michelle are my parents?
Barack: No, Joe pic.twitter.com/M5yf2SDuFG— Jill Biden (@JillBidenVeep) November 13, 2016
Biden: Hillary was saying they took the W's off the keyboards when Bush won!
Obama: Joe put-
Biden: I TOOK THE T'S, THEY CAN ONLY TYPE RUMP pic.twitter.com/D6Vh7Zu429— Josh (@jbillinson) November 13, 2016
Obama: "Joe, why are you still holding my hand?"
Biden: "I wanna freak Mike Pence out"
Obama: "But why?"
Biden: "Just roll with it" pic.twitter.com/o5KZZ0Ysgz— thomas moore (@Thomas_A_Moore) November 12, 2016
Obama: Check pl-
Biden: Actually, we'll take five more milkshakes and you can bill the White House on January 21st pic.twitter.com/KVcdBtQHAe— Josh (@jbillinson) November 12, 2016
Biden: Ideally I'd like to include traps from all of the Home Alone movies, but we've only got two months so the Home Alone 2 plan is fine pic.twitter.com/iFkkJNmkvl
— Josh (@jbillinson) November 12, 2016
Biden: You have some big shoes to fill
Pence: I know, being VP is a huge responsibility.
B: No, Mike. The memes. pic.twitter.com/BLZ7vhQLB8— Luke The Supertramp (@_craw4d4_) November 11, 2016
